The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

Two O'CLOCK. 911 At Paris this d a y, accor di ng to Mr. Reuter's sl( telegram, the French 3 per Cents. were 66f, 75c. A very heavy market has prevailed all day for English Stocks. Continuous sales have cauJed a further decline to-day of 8 per cent., and affairs at I the Stock Exchange present a very dull and de. pressed appearance. Consols for money and ac count are now quoted 881 1. The New Threes Ai and Reduced Annuities are I Z- ex div. ; March Exchequer Bills, 20s. to 10s. dis. ; and June ditto, 275. die. ; and India 6 per Cents., 1031 104. In the Foreign Market there is very little busi. tress, and a general downward movement has taken plane in prices. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 s ; do. Consolides, 601 ; Mexican, 281 j-; do. New, 251 26 ; Greek, 238 244 ; Spanish Passive, et 311 4 ; do. Certificates, 14 4 ; Russian, 871 88/ ; and the Confederate Loan, 74 75. In the Railway Share Market there has been rather more business transacted, but prices have, 1 , in moat instances, exhibited a downward move• l', ment. Great Northern and West Midland have et; each declined Xt 102. Midland and South Eastern, of each ; South Western, 15.3.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, ; and Great Western, N or th Western, , and North Eastern (Berwick) each Se. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been very inactive, without any change of import since to note in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are also in limited demand, Alliance have declined to 541 ; Hindu• stan, China, and Japan to 311; Imperial Ottoman to 164; and London Financial to 23i, BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 8 88 3 per Cent. R e d uce d B6l h x d New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Ja n . 1894 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880.. Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885... Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908... March. June, Exchequer Bills, 4000, 3 & per,Cent. 20 27 Do 4500 Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 5/ per Ct. Do Account.. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 212 Do Account • Do 5 per C en t. J u l y, 18 70 Do Account Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 41 psi Cent ....... Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 D 0 51 per Cent., May, 1879 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1865' Do Bonds 11.000 Do under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 per Cent Do 41 per Cent., 1 852-58-60 Do 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do Account.... . Chilian 6 per Cent. am* Do 41 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. .. Do 5 per Cent. 1864 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent..... Do, Provisonal Land Warrant Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 4 per Cent, 1863 Egyptian 7 per„Cent Do, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.•. . Do Account LsDo Coupons Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent .... Do Account Do "•... 2Bi Do Fren c h Scrip, lB64 Ex.. 26f 20c Do 6 per Cent. A ng l o -F rench dis Ditto Scrip, £23 p a id.... Moorish Imperial 6 per C en t ...... New Granada ................ Do 2 per Cent. .................... Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) .. Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864.. Do do Aug., 1866...• Peruvian 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent~ 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account .................... Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 — Do Account - ........... ..... Do Russian 5 per • Cent., 182'2, £ Do 4± per Cent., 1850 . . . 1860 .. Do 3 per C ent 1859 - -.... ... -- ................ Doper C en t, 1862 ................ 55 87 i 8 .. Do Anglo-Dutch . .............. -- Do Scrip, £4O paid ...... -- pin Sardinian 5 per Cent ........ ..... Do Account ...., Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New D e f erre d Do Account —" Do Passive Do Ac count ...... 31i Spanish C ert. of Coup not funded .. ..,, 1 ;' , Do Account i 4 Swedish, 4 per Cent. 11 it& Do Scrip, £6O raid Turkish 6 per Cent. 1851 D 1) o Account -0o 6 p er C ent. 1863 ............ .. • DOO Account D£lo6 Bonds Doo 6 per Cent. 186 Z DoAccount £lOO Bonds D o 1863 : Du Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.„.. Venezuela 3 per Cc.nt. DoDDo Account o 6 per Ce nt., 1862 ................... Account paid Do Scrip £45 Dividends on the above payable in London. Consols Money ...................TWO O'CLOCK. . BDo Acoount...,. .............. .., B BBl i i Liverpool Cotton Market-this Day, Market quiet. Sales probably 3,000 bales MARKET ONEY AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK; Within the past few days there has been a gradual increase in the inquiry for monetary assist ance, and the rates have consequently been tend ing in an upward direction. This morning the brokers have been charging 71 per cent. for the very best description of short dated commercial paper, and there are still symptoms that higher quotations may yet prevail, A further sum of £5,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Seine, which left this morning with the West Indian mails, conveyed £11,480 in specie. The Norfolk has arrived from Meibournecwith £31,300 in gold. The return issued by the Bank of England for the past week is less satisfactory than was ex pected, notwithstanding the recent large purchase of gold, and the small demand for discounts at that establishment. Subjoined are the particulars Active Circulation .. £20,738,1C0 Increase .. 227,430 Bullion .. .. • • 12,930,033 Increase .. • • • • .. 148,282 Rest .. • • •• .. 3,859,557 Increase .. • • • • .. 216,030 Public Deposits 5,815,742 Increase .• • . 527,017 Other Deposits.. • . 13,093,751 Decrease • • • • •. .. 640,410 Seven Day and other Bill s .. 551,224 Increase 011 Government Securitie s OS 14,826 10,797,095 No alteration. Other Securities 20,164,246 increase •• 196,631 Notes Unemployed 6,141,875 D ecrease .. 80,045 Very few changes of importance are shown in the Bank of France return for the past week. The cash has been decreased by £50,000, and the ad. vances by £20,000. The discounts exhibit not the least change, while the notes in circulation have been increased by £26,700, the treasury balances £104,000, and the current accounts £466,700. The Share list of Hewett and Co. will close on Tuesday next, the 6th inst. During the last two days there has been rather less animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugar has been dull, but without change as regards valuer. The operations in tea have been suspended uatil the public sales, which will com mence on Tuesday next. In rice a moderate business has been reported, while full prices are obtained for coffee. In the Tallow Market, however, there has been a reaction, prices having given way for both present and for ward delivery. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S. Paid. Closing j Businel 3haret Railways. Price. i done. ! 13.14., I Bir.. Wol., and Str.Val'i all — at 'Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost.,Sleaf.,andMicl.Co.' all at Bristol and Exeter 1 100 86 es st Caledonian —.l 100 ; 125 126 60 Cork a nd Bandon .... a:1 I 20 Cornwall all I 6 7 A arts no di g II 10 Do A itill 6pc.pan.has laalllo Do. B been paid to B. 50 Dublin k Belfast June. all 32 34 25 Dun.,Pertb,3/Ab. June.' all 16 17 at Edinburgh & Glasg - ow.l 100 89 01 at G!asg. and S. Western. 100 1 111 113 st G'reatEastern, Ord. eta 100 46i 474 4 64 et Ditto A stuck - at Ditto East Anglian st 100 7 74 at GreatNorthot Scotland 1 00 at Great Northern.... 100 119 131 a t Do A stock •••• 100 1424 1434 142 14 at Do Bdo llOO 127 139 129 at Gt. S. and W. of Irelanc 1100 90 92 at Great Western ...... at Do Str Val gua. stock 100 at Lancashire .4z Yorkshire 100 116 1164 1154 14 at London and Blackwall 100 65 67 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 10% 103 at Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 39 41 401 at Lon. & North Western 100 1124 113 1124 I 111 1 at Lon. & So•Ath Western 100 954 F 64 95 at Man., Shef., & Lincol n . 100 6$ (6 654 5 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 124 Do f shares.. st Metropolitan all 107 108 at Midland Do .New at Do Binning. & Derby 100 101 IC3 10 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 15 Do. 4 shares t 5 Mid Kent .... all Do Cray Line 3t North British it Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 25 16 it Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 106 107 106; 46 I 16 Do, G.N.E. purohast ,6.13.4 d it Do Leeds lOO 64 65 MI it Do York ,t Do Carlisle lOO it North London 0 Do New 16.4,N0rth Staffordshire 0 Y. and S. W. Junction all 11 114 t Scottish Central t Scot. N. E., Aber. stock 100 t Do Scot. Mid, stock lOO 0 Shrews, and Welchpoo all t !Shropshire Union t (South DeTon... ..... t !South Eastern t !South Wales t IS. York. and River Dun 100 'lOl 103 ) IStaines,Wok.,andWok all 7 8 i 'Stockton & Darlington all 36 37 i Do l9 104 114 f, i Do New, 1856 ll 8 9 Taff Vale.. ) Do B 8 6 7 t Do C ..-.. ......... i Ulster - - Do ...... [0 Do . sf Vale of Neath 'Victoria sta. and Pim lOO !Waterford & Kilkenny 100 West Cornwall 100 31 30 W. Hartlepool Liar..lzß.l 100 West Midland- -Oxford' 100 Do Newport! 100 Do lierciordi IGO -- -- BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share Paid. Price. Business dont 100 atlantic &St Lawrence all 58 60 59 on6.,Baroda&.Cent Ina 8k fl 100 101 102 1012 Gu. 5 per Dent .. 20 Do. New . ..... ...• 8 20 Do. E. Shares 205 Builalo and Laae Huron all 0 54 10 Do. Preference All 75 8 5 too Eludalo,Brant&Godricli 10 „ 75 80 ( 6 p. ct. bele. 1, Itcr - , 100 Do. do. July 1, 187: 100 75 80 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 75 80 st ClcuttadtS.Eastn.(Lin , 100 97 93 st Cape Town & Dock Sail 100 94 96 Stook Illastn. Beng,al gu. sp. 100 102 104 /gook h:ant Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 101 202 1 01 5 20 Do. do. G Ext 2O 191 205 20 Do. do. II do. .. 20 191 205 stook Grand frank of Canada Ivo 19 2.) 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 71 73 100 Do. do. deferred.... .. all CO 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 65 67 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 55 57 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock ... all 48 5: 100 Do. do. deferred... .. all 43 45 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock: .. all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28 stook GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 102 103 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 par 51> Do. January, 1802 stock Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 99 101 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 94 10 205 Do. New 18 101 1056 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 xvith't opt. all 89 91 100 Do. 55 p. 0. do. '77-8.... all 82 84 10 Indian. Branch Limited 2 4 d in stook Madras, guar., 5p.0. .. 100 995 1003 stook Do. 14 p. 0. Extension 100 93 95 stook Dc. 14 d 0.... T .. 100 89 01 20 Do. Fi Extenson. 2 stock Melb.Corp fth . 6p. o. Bnds. 100 50 3lelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 58 CO 594 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all 90 Newßrusswick Canda Class A and B. all 3 5 N.lll.C'da6 pc lat pi bds 100 80 81 stook Soinde (100 995 1005 Stock Do. Delhi I 100 994 1005 20 Do. do 2 id par at Do. Punjaub 1 all 935 1005 Do. Do. stock Do. Indue.St. Flo ) I 00 0 95 97 , 95 5 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. op.o.Ja. &July 1877-84 100 96 99 96 Do. Ip. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 P 6 99 D 0.6 p. c.Mar.& Sept. 100 98 102 Do. 6p. C. Jan.&July. lOC 84 86 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 84 86 Cape G.llope, O p 0,1873 100 104 106 Do.Ap &Oct 18S0 100 .107 109 Do. 1890 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 107 101 - (':eylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 103 105 :Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 130 104 107 , N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja..&July 100 97 100 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oat. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p z.,186t 100 197 99 Do. sp. to 187 f 100 96 98 —• Do. d0.,t888 &upwds 100 96 98 iNew Zealand 6 p cent. 100 ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875 lOO 99 102 - ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 100 103 1014 S.Aus G6p.c.167&& up lOO 106 108 - I Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&,July 100 - I Do. io 6 p.o. An.&Ook. 1 100 i 109 110 BRITISH MINES. 2 uambrian Consol. Gold 1 ' * — lord Amalgamated I 30 32 301 1 Devon G. Cone. (Tavist;l 1 580 590 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 67 69 —• I East Clogau Gold Ltd — E East Caradon .... 2.14.6 27 28 ast Cara Brea .. ' 3.4.0 74 7j —1,. Wlltussvl (Tavistk.)' 8.13.0 5 51 GamASt.Aubyn(Gwen 581 5 7 t.ireat South Tolgus 17s 2 2/ G. Wheal Vor (Holston 40 27 28 27/ !Grenville... 6.16.c 61 74 ILI er(.4's-Foot ...... 8.12 88 40 - flingston Downs , 1.18.0 31 41 - Lady Bertha I 2.8,6 - Margaret (tlny Lelant 9i 7 9 Matte Valley.. 4 ilyndy Iron Oro (Lim.) 21 It d New Seton l9l 75 85 North Downs 3 14 11 N.Wh'i Basset(lllogan;; 3.1.0 2 2. North Wheal Crotty ! 2.6.9 3 34 i'ar Consols (St. Blaze)); l'rovidenee (Uny Lelnt.)l 10.0.7 40 42 South Caradon(St.Cleer; 14 tOO 520 S. Cara Brea (Illogan) — 9.. Wheal Fran. (1110gan,,,18.18.9 421 47i Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 Lamar SilvA Lead Min ' fin Croft 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) ll 8 9 —; IV, Cr radon (Ltskeard) 9 94 101 West Setoa Wheal Basset (Mogan), 54 92 95 Wheal Bulleratedruth), 10 18 20 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelaut); 2.0.6 WhealLudcott . ..... 15.81 11 2 Wheal Mary Ann (Lien.) 8 I 14 16 Wheal Teton 5Bl 210 215 Wheal Treiawney (Lis ); 7 19 21 Wheal Union 4 I 11 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto, 4i per cent red., 100 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Victoria Station and Pimlico, 163 FOREJGN KAILWAYB:I Dutch Rhenish,!lB/ Great Luxembourg, 101 Sambre and Meuse, 6i FOREIGN MUTE& United Mexican 6 J3ANKS. Albion, 51 Alliance (Um.), 551 41 Anglo Austrian,;7l Bank of British Columbia,'lsl Consolidated Bank, lim., 101 Hindustan, China, and Japan (Rm.). 321 3 11 Imperial Bank of :Mina, India,:and Japan, lim., 52 i Imperial Ottoman, 17 161 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 51 London ana County, 73 4 London Joint Stock, 45 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Urn., 251 5 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lira., 121 South Eastern, lira., 81 Union of Australia, 52 Union of London, 52} 1 2 lAIISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, lira., 31 Commercial Union, Insurance,_Bl Credit Foncier, 12, I Credit Mobiihr, 121 12 6 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, Bra., 31 6 Fore -street Warehouse, line., (1 / Hudson's Bay, lc llumber Iron Works, 3 Iniperi,l Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 8 i I International Financial society, lim., 94 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour,,;o 1 Joint Stock Discount, lira., 7 London Financial Association, lim., 24 1 31 Ditto, new, 186 London tieneral Omnibus Company, 31 South Australian Land, 201 Universal Marine. Insurance, lim., 31 Warrant Finance, litn., 43 5 A FORTUNATE ESCAPE.---otl Tuesday evening the lookout man at Bilston Lighthouse observed through his glass four boys standing about a bank in the channel of the Mersey, numbered 23, They would have inevitably been swallowed up by the advancing tide, but a lifeboat was sent as soon as possible to their assistance, and they were rescued. Their delight may ba imagined, as the dreariest of terrors had previously absorbed them. STOCK-EXCHANGE EMBLEMS.—A room just com pleted for the open board of brokers in New York is richly frescoed, the centre piece representing the Goddess of For tune emptying a salver of coin upon the heads of a bull and ear—the latter in the act of hugging the pieces to the th, while the former tosses them in, the air, 4.18.4 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE ATTEMPTED MUDDED OF A WIFE TEIWITCH JEALOUSY. —John Williams, of Brewer-street, Golden square, charged with stabbing his wife, Annie Williams, in the throat, with intent to murder her, was again brought before Mr Knox, Mr Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prisoner. The evidence taken on the last occasion showed that a constable (William Conquest, C division) saw the prisoner go up to his wife in Leicester-square, near the Alhambra Palace, and place his hand on her throat. The wife then ran away into the Sabloniere Hotel followed by the pri soner, and on the constable going into the hotel to see the cause, he found that the wife was stabbed in the neck. The prisoner was then taken into custody, and subsequently the parts of an instrument were picked up near the spot. On the prisoner being placed at the bar to-day. Mr John Skogg, 2, St Martin's-place, M.R.C.S., said — About half-past 10 on the night of the 25th ult. I was called to the Sab:oniere Hotel. She had an incised wound on the neck, was very faint, and appeared to have lust a good deal of blood. The wound was on the left side of the neck and it was about half-an-ineh in length. Mrs Annie Williams, the prosecutrix, said—Before I kiss the book I wish to state that I will not press the charge. I was as much to blame as my husband. Mr Knox—You must be sworn. Mrs Williams was then sworn, and said—On the night of the 25th ult. I was walking with a gentleman in Leices ter-square about half-past 10 o'clock in the evening. My husband came up and spoke to me, and I told him to go away. My husband asked me to go and live with him and be comfortable, as we had always been. I told him I would not. He then said that rather than see me with another man he would see me dead. He then put his hand to my neck, and I put up my hand, and caught the instrument in my hand, and found that I was stabbed. When I caught hold of the instrument it was broken in two. I then ran into the Sabloniero Hotel and into the coffee-room, and I told them to send for the nearest medical man, and they did so, and a medical gentleman attended, Mr Skeggs. By Mr Lewis—Recently there has been a disagreemen between me and my husband. I have been the cause of it, and he has complained of my mode of life. Shortly before this occurrence he left the house where we had been residing. We were not living together at the time of this occurrence, having been apart for about 6 weeks ; but I have seen him On the 25th he was the worse for drink, and has been so fre quently since he left me. He has begged of me to live with him again. Mr. Cutcliffe, supposed to be my father, sur geon, has attended me since, and I am now quite well. The evidence having been read over by Mr Nokes, the chief clerk, Mr, Knox—Was the prisoner drunk, or not, at the me P Inspector Wilson—He was not drunk, I believe, but very excited. Mr Thomas Wright, of Ranelagh-street, called by Mr Lewis, said—l saw the prisoner near 11 o'clock on the night of the 25th of August. I am the cashier at the Alhambra Palace, and noticed the prisoner walking up and down, staggering as if he was intoxicated. I certainly believe he was intoxicated. The prisoner was .ben committed for trial. Mr Lewis—l have to apply that the prisoner may be admitted to bail. Mr Knox—l must refuse to take bail. Mr Lewis—l can produce evidence that he has always borne an irreproachable character. Mr Knox—l cannot take bail. I believe the prisoner intended to take his wife's life, Mr Lewis—l shall apply to a judge at Chambers. Mr Knox—That course i 8 open to you. THAMES. REVERSE OP FORTUNE.—PAINFUL CASE.—William Gingell, a labourer in the service of the London and Vic toria Dock Company was brought before Mr Paget charged with stealing 43 cigars valued at 14s and stated to be the best in England. The prisoner, who was much, affected was formerly a gentleman of fortune, and in four years squandered a for tune of £25,000. After several vicissitudes he became a day labourer. His family at home are in some distress, and his wife was confined wifh herlast child four days ago. He now appeareciin the felons' dock on a most serious charge. Mr Thomas Popham, gate keeper of the up town ware• house of the London and Victoria Dock Company, Pdino ries, said the:prisoner had been employed there two years. Yesterday afternoon he searched the prisoner, and rubbed him down in the usual manner, and found upon him 43 cigars. A portion of them were concealed in his bosom and the remainder in his stockings fastened round his legs with red tape. He said to the prisoner " How came you to be so foolish as to do this ?" and he said " There is illness at home." The prisoner had borne a most excellent character. The prisoner faintly said he was guilty. Mr Addington, inspector of gatekeepers, said that he was desired by his superintendent to say he had known the prisoner 20 years, and that he had borno an irreproachable character. Mr Paget—That tells both ways. The prisoner hae robbed his employers in a very ingenious manner. It is a very serious matter. I sentence the prisoner to be impri soned for two months and to be kept to hard labour, A VERY BAD SON.—Edmund Clay, aged 20, was charged with stealing a scarf shawl, valued at 10s., the property of his widowed mother. The prosecutrix said she was very sorry to appear against her son. She was sorry to say he was a very bad fellow. He would not work, and preferred an idle life to living on the fruits of his own industry. He had robbed her several times. He had become too well acquainted with a bad set of male and female companions. On Tuesday last he robbed her of a scarf shawl, and sold it for 2s 9d at a leav ing shop. The prisoner, with an air of indifference, said " Guilty, my Lord." He was sentenced to Ulm° months' impritou. went and hard labour. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Only a moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to our market today. The demand, however, was by no means active; nevertheless, prices both of red and white qualities ruled firm. The market was well supplied with most descriptions of foreign wheat. Generally speaking, the trade ruled quiet, yet no change took place in prices compared with Monday. Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request at late rates. The supply of barley on sale was moderate. The trade for most qualities sold firm at full quotations.; The malt trade was steady at late rates. With oats the market was extensively supplied; the de mand, however, was of full average extent, and the recent advance in prices was supported. Beans and peas ruled firm at quite previous rates. The flour trade was steady at full prices. ARRIVALS THIS VUBK. Wheat. Barley, Malt. Oats. Flour. English .. 1,630 230 1,940 260 1,690 Irish Foreign 11,810 9,690 52,940 9,860 brls, NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. But moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these mar kets. For good and prime qualities there is a steady de mand at full prices ; otherwise, the trade is dull. Per 81b. by the carcase. a d ad a dsd Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 4 Middling mutton 4 2 4 6 Middling do. .. 3 6 3 10 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Prime large do. 4 0 4 2 Vea). 3 8 4 4 Do. small d 0... 4 2 4 4 Small pork ~ .. 4 4 4 8 Large pork .... 3 4 4 2 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 0 BOROUGH HOP. The plantation accounts are more favourable, and the demand for hops rules heavy. In prices, however, com pared with the last report, very little change has taken place. New hops are selling at £6 lOs to £9 per cwt., th quality of the crop being very fine. COLONIAL. TEA.—Business has been very dull, operations being deferred until the public sales, which commence on Tues day next. SUGAR.—OnIy a limited amount of business has been transacted in West India, and previous prices have been with difficulty maintained. In the refined market common kinds are quoted 48s per cwt. CorrEE,—There has been a good demand for colonial de scriptions, and both Plantation and Native Ceylon have realised full rates. iticr,—A fair business has been done in low and inferior qualities, at full prices. TALLOW.—Tho market has shown symptoms of depres sion alter the late advance. P.Y.C. on the spot has de clined to 42s 9d, and for last three months delivery to 44s 6d per cwt. GREENOCK.—A BOAT RUN DOWN AND MAN DROWNED.—Oa Tuesday evening, about half-past 8 o'clock, as the Belfast mail steamer Lynx was proceeding down the river, when off the Battery Point, Greenock, she ran down a small rowing boat, one of the occupants of wh;ch, Daniel M‘Donald, joiner awl blockmakor, Greenock, was drowned. The deceased had been out fishing at the bank, along with his son, a young lad 11 years of age, and Mr Fleming, of Lawrie and Fleming, carvers and gilders, Greenock, and they were pulling home. As they were crossing the channel they observed the mail steamer coming down with her lights up, but thinking she was further off than she in reality was, it being then dark and wet, it was thought they could easily pass her. The steamer, however, struck the small boat amidships and cut her in two. Mr Fleming and the boy were picked up by a boat lowered from the steamer, but 14I'Donald sank almost immediately after the collision, His body was found at G•aurock on Weduehday, THE TRAGEDY IN HATTON GARDEN, ADJOURNED INQUEST-THIS DAY. The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs Wilkinson was resumed this day at the Three Tuns Tavern, Cross-street, Hatton-garden. The inquiry, it will be recollected, was adjourned in order to enable the coroner to communicate with Sir Grey to ob tain the attendance of the prisoner. The application had been successful, and the accused man this morning was in attendance, in custody of an inspector of the S division. The first,witness examined was Mrs Turnbull, the aunt of the witness Collier, who gave her evidence before the magistrate, She merely repeated the statement as to the prisoner entering her bedroom and pulling his wife out of her bed and kicking her violently. Ann Chadwick said she had known Mrs Wilkinson for two years. The deceased often told her of her husband's illusage, but that he always was anxious to make it up with her. She saw her last Sunday about 8 o'clock, when she told her what had occurred at the railway station. She said she and her husband had quarrelled, and that he had struck her in the eye. She left witness's place at 10 o'clock and went home, but she said she should not go into her own room until her husband was asleep, as be was sure to be quarrelling with her, and she was afraid of him when tipsy, but that he was always kind to her when sober. By a Juror—The bruise on the eye was not visible when she saw her. She appeared quite well when she left her. Police -constable 116 G said he took the prisoner into cus tody. He asked him how he accounted for the marks on the deceased. He said, " Well, there was some blows on Friday last, but none since. Police•constable 1 G said, the prisoner was brought to the police station et Clerkenwell about half-past one on Sunday morning. He informed the prisoner he was charged with a serious offence, and, having cautioned him, ho said, "It's not what I've done to-night, it's what I did on Friday." Mrs Collier recalled—She had never heard the prisoner threaten the life of his wife. The Coroner, in summing up the evidence, said it was ' for them to consider the charge, which was a very serious one against Henry Wilkinson, who was supposed to have murdered his wife, It would be for them to consider whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain an accusation of wilful murder. The coroner vent through the evidence, and stated that, according to the testimony of the medical gentleman, the injury which caused the death of the unfor• tunate woman did not arise from any violence she might have sustained on the Friday, but from a rupture of the spleen, which, however, was in a diseased state, The kick which it had been proved the prisoner had inflicted on . the deceased appeared to have caused that rupture, and, under all the circumstances, they would have to show whether the blow was inflicted with the malicious intention of killing the woman. If they should be of that opinion, then it would be their duty to return a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner, but if they thought that he had been guilty of unintentionally causing her death, they would return a verdict of manslaughter. The jury then returned to consider their verdict, and after about half.an-hour's absence, returned to the inquest room. In answer to the questions of the Coroner, The foreman of the jury said they were opinion that the prisoner did not contemplate killing his wife, and they therefore returned a verdict of manslaughter against him. The prisoner, a man about 30 years of age, of the middle height, with sharp features, and deeply pitted by small-pox, daring the time the jury were in deliberation seemed to suffer the greatest anxiety. Immediately the verdict was pronounced he seemed for the moment entirely prostrate, but he quickly recovered himself and burst into tears. He was then taken from the room, and on making his appear ance in the street on his way to the Clerkenwell Police- Court, to which he was conveyed in a cab, the crowd made some little attempt at hissing, but it quickly subsided as an immense number of idlers followed to the cab with a view of:getting another glimpse of the prisoner. The final examination of the prisonar took place al Clerkenw ell Police Court shortly after tho .termination of the inquest. The same witnesses were examined, and a simi• lar conclusion was the result. Royal National Lifeboat Institution. A meeting of this institution was held yesterday at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Captain Sir Ed ward Perrott, Bart., M.P., in the chair. There were also present George Lyall, Esq., M.P.; Col. Palmer, W. H. Harton, Elq., Admiral Bullock, Capt. De St. Croix, and Capt. Ward, R.N., the in.. Spector of lifeboats of the institution. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, rewards, amounting to £62 were voted to the crews of the lifeboats of the institutions stationed at Pembrey, Margate, New Brighton, C4istor, and Arklow, for going off to vessels in reply to signals of distress in stormy weather, but whose crews had been saved by other means before the arrival of the lifeboats. It was reported that the lifeboats had on every occasion behaved very well. The silver medal of the institution, and a copy of its vote on parchment, were voted to Miss Le Geyt, a resident of Bath, in acknowledgment of her noble and courageous conduct in rescuing two lads from drowning at Lyme Regis, on the 4th ult. Miss Le Geyt had been a visitor at Lyme Regis for some few weeks, and on the day in question was out rowing in a small boat in company with a lady friend. The two lads were out playing at the extremity of the outer pier, and by some means unfortunately fell into the sea. Upon seeing the accident Miss Le Geyt immediately rowed at much risk through the broken water to their rescue, and throwing an oar to one of the buys, and holding the other lad in her arms until .further assistance came, she fortunately was the means of saving them both from a watery grave. A reward of £2 was also voted to a boat's crew for putting off and saving 3 out of 5 of the crew of a fishing boat which had capsized in a heavy gale near Clogher Head, Louth Harbour, on the 11th of June last. Two men were unfortunately drowned on the occasion. A reward was likewise granted to four men for putting off in a shore boat and rescuing, at consi derable risk of life, eight persons from a fishing boat which had struck on a sunken rock during stormy weather off North Roe, Shetland, on the 24th of May last. A reward of .£3 capsized off Ferriter' s C ove , Di ng le, was also voted to several fisher.. men for saving si x C oastguar d sme n whose b oa t was county I. 'erry , on the sth of July last. Various other rewards were also granted to the crews of shore boats and others for saving life from different wrecks on the coast of the United Kin g . dom. Payments, amounting to £l,BOO, were made at various lifeboat establishments, and several lifeboat houses were ordered to be built on various parts of ,he coast, The meeting decided to station a new lifeboat at Caistor, near Great Yarmouth, and to appropriate the same to Birmingham, where the residents had collected the cost, amounting to about £450, of a lifeboat, Caistor is one of the most important life. boat stations on the coast, The h past month, sent n t h h a, e d L d a u n ring th Land's :2n e d, Cardigan, and p e o w r t f The Great Wester n , t h e L ondon and lifeboats institutio n e o b i o ia a e ta n North Western, and the connecti ng rail wa y com pafnreieeschoandv,ewyiatnhctehteoir all u s t u h a e l i l i ib it e b r o a a li ttsy-: during the past week, been exhibited at t he Crystal Palace, and h a d Ancient The li f o e b r o d a e t r presented of F o r e st e t r o s th e h tt d , excited general attention and admiration. The boat will remain there until the evening of the sth inst. The cost of a second b oa t is also being collected amongst the members o f the order. The Horse Guards had applied t o th e i ns tit u ti on for an additional supply of its new instructions f or the restoration of the apparentl y drowned, in order e th ve a r t y t h he osp sa it m al e an m d i the British army at home and abroad. Some of the French ports were having these valuable rules translated and circu lated on the coast, and we trust that mayors, town commissioners, and others will, at this period of th e ght barracks b e extensively 0 f circulated in year, assist the institution in extensively distribut ingth and elsewhere. esedirectionson the coast, banks of rivers, docks,_ The French Government had instructed Capitane de Vaissean de la Roche Keiandraon, of the Im• perial navy, to visit the institution and some of its lifeboat stations, with the view . of making himself acquainted with the mode of the operations of the society on the coast of the United Kingdom. Messrs. Forrestt are now building three lifeboats for the French Government, under the superin. tendence of the institution. HOPE ON AN ICEBERG.--Last week a bottle con taining the following note was washed ashore at Buckie, Banffshi:e :—" Long. 7 30 west, lat. 80 35 north.—Whaler Sardine sank, having been in collision with an iceberg. Crew betaken to the ice. Hope some ship moy soon ap pear, as our provisions are nearly exhausted.—JoßN WIL 'JAMS; Captain,—July 30, 1864,-. Position of Affairs in the South. Tha following letter from General Seymotl' de , scribes the present position of affairs in the South. General Seymour was one of the prisoners of war who were placed under fire at Charleston, and has just been released. The letter is addressed to Mr. Dodge, of New York : "Williamstown, Massachusetts, Aug. 15. " My dear Sir,—You ask for nay impressions of the pre sent condition of the Southern Confederacy, and you shall have them, For the benefit of our cause I wish they might be impressed upon every soul in the land, that the confidence begotten of my three months' observations in the interior of the South might be shared by every man who has the least connection with the responsibilities of this struggle, and I am sure that these opinions are not peculiar to myself. Every one of the 60 officers just exchanges will express the same; every one of our men, whether from the gaols of Charleston, or the pens of Macon and Anderson ville, will confidently tell the same story. The rebel cause is fast failing from exhaustion. Their two grand armies have been reinforced this summer from the last resources of the South. From every corner of the land every old man and every boy capable of bearing a rifle has been impressed, willingly or unwillingly, and hurried to the front. Lee's army was the first so strengthened, it was at the expense of Hood's. Governor Brown told the truth with a plainness that was very bitter, but it was none the less truth. Let me extract a few prominent statements from his proclamation of July 9, addressed to the reserved militia of Georgia : A late correspondence with the President of the Confede rate States satisfies my mind that Georgia is to be loft to our own resources to supply the reinforcements to General Johnston's army, which are indispensable to the protection of Atlanta, and to prevent the State being overrun by the overwhelming numbers now under the command of the Federal General upon our soil. But there is need of further reinforcements, as will be seen by the accompanying letter of General Johnston ; . . and it becomes my duty to call out every man in the state able to bear arms, as fast as they can be armed, to aid in the defence of our homes and altars and the graves of our ancestors. If the Confederate Go vernment will not send the large cavalry force (now engaged in raiding and repelling raids) to destroy the long line of railroads over which General Sherman brings his supplies from Nashville, and thus compel him to retreat with the loss of most of his army, the people of Georgia, who have already been drawn upon more heavily in proportion to population than those of any other States in the Confederacy, must, at all hazards and at any sacrifice, rush to the front, If General Johnson's army is destroyed, the Gulf States are thrown open to the enemy, and we are ruined.' There must, indeed, have been desperate weakness when Georgia, and the Southern cause with it, wereso neglected that Lee's army might be made equal to the task of holding Grant to the Potomac or the James; and the people of the South are intelligent enough to understand and to appreciate the fact, and they have lost heart accordingly. The following is from a letter written by one rebel to another, that accidentally fell into the hands of one of my fellow prisoners, and for the authenticity of which I vouch Very few persons are preparing to obey the late call of the Governor. His sum mons will meet with no response here. The people are soul sick and heartily tired of this hateful, hopeless strife. They would end it if they could, but our would-be rulers will take good care that no opportunity be given the people to vote against it. By lies, by fraud, and by chicanery his revolu tion was inaugurated ; by force, by tyranny, and by the suppression of truth it is sustained. It is nearly time that it shouldiend ; and of sheer depletion it must end before long. We have had enough of want and of woe, enough of cruelty and carnage, enough of cripples and corpses. There is an abundance of bereaved parents, weeping widows, and orphaned children in the land. If we can, let us not increase the number. The men who, to aggrandise themselves, or to gratify their own ambition, brought this cruel war upon a peaceful and prosperous country, will have to render a fearful account of their misdeeds to a wronged, robbed, and outraged people. Earth has no punishment sufficiently meet for their villany here, and hell will hardly be hot enough to scathe them hereafter.' There is certainly no small propor tion of the Southern people—despite the lying declarations of their generals, as we had good reason to learn—that not only favours the progress Of our arms, but that daily prays that this exterminating war may soon be brought to a finality by our complete and perfect success. They have had too much of despotism, not enough of the triumph promised them. Many intelligent Southern gentlemen do indeed ex press strong hopes of their ultimate independence; but such hope is not shared by the masses. Disappointed from the first in not being acknowledged by foreign Powers, more bitterly disappointed in their general expectations that Northern cowardice or dissension would secure their ends, but a single chance remains, and that is the result of our next election for President. If a Democrat succeeds to Mr Lincoln, they profess to feel sure of negotiations and their Confederacy. They believe a Democrat will be elected. In Mr Lincoln's re-election they see only subjugation, anni hilation; for the war must then continue, and continuance is their failure and ruin. In military affairs it is an excel lent rule never to do what the enemy desires ; it is not equally true in politics ? Certain it is that the remaining hope of the South lies in Mr Lincoln's defeat. Now, I am not enough of a politician to know whether the election of a Democrat can result as favourably to the South as it an ticipates. Their wish alone may be the parent of their belief. But I assured all who expressed that belief that the North, as a mass, is as united as the South— that no Democrat could be elected on a peace platform, and that any President who would inaugurate any mea sure leading to peace, on the basis of Southern indepen dence, would be promptly hung, by loyal acclamation, to the lamp post in front of his own presidential mansion. However that may be, if we are but true to ourselves, there can be but one result. What we now need is men, only men. No substitutes or hirelings, who go forth with any motive but their country's good, and produce but little beyond depreciating our armies; but men, such as really constitute the State, and boast of being freemen and sons of freemen. If these fail to support their country's cause in her hour of peril, they are unworthy of continuing freemen, and should blush ever to exercise a freeman's privileges. But if bounties be paid let it be in Southern land, not in Northern gold, and armies of emigrants, whose sons may „ , aspire to win the rule of the nation, will cross the seas to win the broad acres that disloyalty has forfeited to the State. To every intelligent soldier who has fought through all these indecisive campaigns, on almost numberless indecisive fields, the question ccntinually arises, with touching force, why do we not overwhelm our enemies ? Tens of thousands of lives are lost because our array of strength is so dispro portionately less than that against which we battle. Every where we meet on nearly equal terms, when we might well have four to one. The cost to us in blood and treasure of a prolonged war can hardly be foreseen—the economy is in finite of such an effort as the glorious North should put forth. The South will fight as long as the struggle is equal, it will submit to such preponderance as we should show in every field. Glance at the summer's campaigns. If Sherman had but 50,000 or 75,000 more men the South would be lost, because Hood would be annihilated. If Meade had moved in the spring with reserves of 75,000 or 100,000 men Lee would have been hoplessly crushed. Even at this moment a third column of 40,000 or 50,000 men, rightly moved would give unopposed blows to the Confede racy from, which she could never rise. What folly, then, to struggle on in this way, when we could send to the field five times the force already there. What weakness to think we cannot conquer the South. Behind the James only boys and old men are to be seen, while here men buy and sell as in the olden days of quiet, and regiments of able-bodied citizens crowd the streets of our cities, There is but one course consistent with Northern safety and honour. Let the people awake to a sense of their dignity and strength, and a few months of comparatively trifling exertion of such effort as alone is worthy of the great North, and the rebellion will crumble before us. Fill this draught promptly and willingly with good and true men, send a few spare thousands over rather than under the call, and the summer sun of 1865 will shine upon a regenerated land. There are seme who speak of peace. Of all Yankees the Southern most scorns those who do not fight, but are glad enough to employ them, as they do their slaves, to perform their dirty w ork. Peace for the South would be sweet indeed —for us, except through Southern subjugation, but anarchy and war for ever. The Pacific the 'Western, the Eastern States would at once fall asunder. The South would be dominant, and the people of the North would desert e to be driven afield, under negro owners, to hoe corn and cotton for Southern masters. But no faint-hearted or short-sighted policy can set aside the eternal decrees of the Almighty, who has planted no line of division between the Atlantic and the Western deserts, between the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, that signifies His will that we should be separated; and unless so separated peace is a delusion, and its advocacy a treason against the wisest and holiests interests of our country. It has been with a trust that renewed hope and vigour might be given, when vigour and hope are needful, that I have written, and you have my consent to using this as you please, and I am very truly yours, TRUMAN SEYMOUR' Brigadier-General United States' Volunteers." FEARFUL EPIDEMIC AT BERMUDA AND NASSAU. —By the arrival of the Canadian mail steamer Hibernian, we have been placed in possession of intelligence respecting an epidemic which is now decimating the islands of Bermuda and Nassau. To such a fearful extent has the epidemic spread in these two islands that the resident medi cal practitioners are quito unable to cope with this terrible emergency, and all the principal army surgeons of the British troops in Canada have gone to assist them. A gen tleman writing from headquarters says :—I regret to learn that the yellow fever has this season broken cut with great virulence at Bermuda, and has made a great deal of havoc among the troops and civilians stationed there, numbers of whom, both officers and men, have fallen victims to the dis ease. The consequence has been a call for medical aisstance from all the military surgeons now in Canada, and a num ber of them have kit for Portland, en route for Halifax, from whence they will proceed to Bermuda." "Not only is the yellow fever devastating Bermuda, but Nassau was never in such a frightful state as at present." The fever, it appears, was first brought to Nassau by a steamer from Havana or Wilmington about tbree months ago, and since then the number of deaths, especially amongst the Euro peans and those engaged iu the blockade running business, has been ellen:now, BANK OF FRANCE. (REUTERS EXPRESS.) PARIS, September 1. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account :-- SEPT. 1. DR. f. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 Profits in addition toCapita/ (Art. 8 law June 9,11857) 5,148,415 6G Reserve in the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,10.5,750 14 Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes ,in circulation ...... 767,763,725 767,100,725 Bank notes to order and re- AUGUST 25. f. e. 182,500,000 5,135,765 32 ceipts payable at sight 6,052,412 41 6,015,935 91 Treasury ace. cur. creditor 6 8,625,0(4 45 66,031,467 15 Current accounts—Paris 114,081, 075 25 104,474,6 .9 75 Do. branch-banks 27,991,045 25,956,9'28 Dividends payable , Discounts and sundry 2 interests 9,166,141 80 Re-discounts of the last eta. montha 2,588,735 17 Sundries 8,311,392 86 2,688,735 17 14,276,025 75 1,228,202,891 88 1,210,442,424 83 CR. Cash in hand and branch banks 279,353,777 83 280,595,089 40 Commercial bills overdue 1,188,074 36 327,027 9 - Commercial bills discounted not yet due.. Do. branch-banks.... 303,409,585 292,137,502 Advances on deposits of bullion Da branch. banks 3,61.5,900 Advances on Frenchpublic securities .. Do, branch-banks 8,636,650 Advances on railway shares and sdebentures 27,763,600 Do. branch-banks 1'7,917,600 Advances on Credit Fon cier Bonds 413,100 Do. branch-banks.... 333,950 Advances to the State 14,825,429 Si 3 3 328,000 - 15,953,200 8,318,250 27,849,900 18,139,550 409,200 331,600 (Conven. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Govt. Stock Reserve 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes immobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) Hotel and furniture of the Bank Landed property, branches Expenses of management 1,119,873 06 Sundries .. 5,525,163 16 60,000,000 - 12,950,750 14 36,850,967 91 100,000,000 8,363,652 953,329 15 4,800,516 -- 1,228,202,891 38 1,210,442,424 83 Certified by the Honorary Vice-President of the Council of State, Governor of the Bank, _ AD. VIIITEX. THE HARVEST. DERBYSITIRE.—During the past week the weather has been very favourable for harvest operations, and corn cutting is going on in all parts of this county. Seldom or ever was a finer season experienced in this locality for the ingather ing of the crops, and in the south part of Derbyshire a good portion of the corn is already safely housed. In the north a fair quantity of corn has been stacked, but the greater bulk is still standing. The root crops, although much benefited by the late rain, will in nine cases out of ten prove a failure. The nights during the past week have been very frosty. This will materially tend to ripen the outstanding corn in the Peak; and if fine weather continues no doubt the whole et the corn will be safely stacked and housed in about ten days. As regards the wheat crop accounts vary ; in some places it is pretty good, while in others there will be a deficiency. The barley crop turns out better than was expected. Beans vary—in some parts the yield will be very good, in others very poor. Oats in most parts of the country are turning out a poor crop, the grain being poorly fed, and the straw very short. Farmers in the north of the county are still carting water from the rivers to keep their cattle alive. SCOTLAND.—The past week has been unusually favour able for harvest operations, and in lowland districts cutting has been pushed on so vigorously, alike by manual and mechanical means, that comparatively little now remains to be reaped. In East Lothian leading has been going on fora week or ten days, and many stackyards are already beginning to assume a fall appearance. In Mid and West Lothians there were a few fields cleared last week, but carrying did not generally commence until Monday. Owing to the shortness of the straw the crops are not bulking so well in the stack, but the heads of the wheat are on the whole of fair average size, and it is ex pected will yield tolerably well on the barn floor. There is no doubt that barley, as a rule, will, though deficient in straw, turn out a superior crop. Oats will be a small return, much under the average over the whole counbry, but there are many fields as strong as any farmer could wish. The quality of all the grain promises to be more than ordinarily good, owing to the flue dry sunny weather which has pre vailed ever since harvest came in. Farmers aro at some loss just now as to whether they should wish for dry weather or rain. In the eastern districts of Scotland especially the green crop is suffering much from lack of moisture ; and, unless rain comes soon, it will be very small. In the more western and northern localities, though not so far behind, the turnips are still backward, and cannot possibly turn out a full crop without rain coming soon; and, indeed, it is problematical, if the yield will prove an average even then. As beef and mutton are so much more valuable than corn just now it is re garded as a very serious matter that there should be a dan ger of turnips and grass falling short. However, on the whole, most husbandmen who occupied mixed land—arable and pasture—would prefer another week or ten days of fair weather, so that they might get their grain safely under " thack and rope." The potatoes, though not nearly so large a crop as last year, are st 11 a fair yield, and the price is much higher than at this time last season, with the pros pect of going up. Beans are generally good. For the last few days we have had threatening of rain, but nothing more then a few slight showers, which did no injury to the grain in stook, have fallen. Rivers and burns are very low, and in many places great scarcity of water for cattle and horses is experienced.—Scolsnzczn. MURDEROUS ATTACK.—By the arrival of 8 . ..111.'s surveying steamer Beaver we have a full account of the melancholy but not unexpected murder of Alexander M'Donald and several of his party while on their way through from Bentinck-arm to Fort Alexandria. On the 17th of May M'Donald and his party started from New Aberdeen, at the head of Bentinek-arm, for Fort Alexandria, on the Fraser. They had 42 pack animals, 28 of which were loaded with goods for the mines, valued at between 4,00 A and 5,000 dole. On arriving at Naneootloon Lake, about 75 miles from the arm, the met with a party of Indians, com posed of part of the Chilcoaten, Tatla, and Sitleece tribes, among them being two of the murderers of Mr Wadding ton's party at Eute. M'Dougall's squaw,whe was a daughter of one of the Chilcoaten chiefs, here learut from ono of her old tillicums that the Indians intended to rob and murder the whole party, and at once informed the packers, who, becoming alarmed, began to retrace their steps, when they were attacked by the savages. Two of the number, M'Dou gall and Higgins, fell from their horses at the first fire, the latter shot through the breast; M'Donald's horse was shot under him, on which he mounted another, which was also shot down. He then took to the bush, and when Jost seen was standing behind a tree shooting at the Indiana with his revolver. Barney Johnson was badly wounded in the face and breast by heavy shot, and a ball passed through his horse's head, killing the animal and tearing open the I rider's cheek. Malcolm M‘Leed was wounded with ,shot., and his hand badly torn by a ball. Grant got a ball through his arm and his side filled with shot. Frederick Harrison was also considerably cut up. Farquharson was the only one who escaped unhurt, although his horse was shot un der him. He escaped into the bush, where ho was four days wandering about without food, except berries, not daring to return to the trail for fear of being seen by the Indians. He at last made his way back to the head of the Arm. M'Dou gall's squaw was also shot by the Indians, and all the horses and property carried oti. Grant found his way to Mr Hamil ton's ranch, and burst in upon the family, his face and body streaming with blood, telling them of the massacre. They at once packed up a few valuables, and taking their arms and ammunition, hastened down to the river and embarked in a canoe. They had hardly got dint when the blood• thirsty villains appeared on the high bark above them. They did not fire, however, being intent on plundering the house, and the little party fortunately made their escape unhurt. The Now Westminster Volunteers landed at Ben tinek-arm on Sunday, the 19th, and started at once after the murderers. They were accompanied by 30 Bella Coola Indians, who had been supplied with arms by Governor Seymour. A force of Marines, probably 60 or 70 in number, would be despatched by Admiral Kingcome, to follow the Volunteers and reader all the assistance in their power. Governor Seymour started across for Fort Alexandria on the following Monday.— Victoria (Vancouver) Colonist, June 28. ,XTENSIVEEMBEZZLEMENT.—`'Yo regret to learn that the cashkeeper in a large stockbroking concern a Liverpool has absconded, leaving deficiencies in his ac• counts to an amount variously estimated at from £lO,OOO to £16,000. It is said that the books of the concern have been falsified in the most dexterous manner, balances being struck fortnightly, and nothing left to create the slightest suspi• cion in the minds of the principals. The absentee is a single man, about 40 years of age, end it is said that his extensive transactions on the turf have been the cause of his ruin. As a proof of the reckless manner in which he acted, it is said that for the St. Leger he had backed Scot tish Chief for £l,OOO, and the horse having boon scratched, he was a loser to the full amount. It is believed that the defaulter has sailed for America under the assumed name of Smith.—Lircrpool PLYMOUTH, Sept. 10 a.m.—Last night the second officer of the Spanish schooner Sircna, Captain Arranda, arrived here from Tor Point. Ile reports that the schooner was of and from Tarragona, in ballast, bound for Norway. On Monday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, she was run down and sunk by a steamship, name unknown. Three of the crew got on board the Et:Amer. The other escaped in the lonj boat, landed is Whitesand Bay, and walked to Ter Point. SECOND EDITION. BUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Sept. 2.—The election of M. Cheneviere to the Geneva Council of State was declared valid by the Federal Council to-day. Geneva is quiet. e Explosion on the North London Railway. -4.- _ Dr Lankester yesterday resumed she inquest on the body of the stoker, whose death was occasioned by the explosion of the locomotive engine on the Norih London Railway. The jury having inspected the wreck of the locomotive at the company's works, at Bow, Captain Tyler, of the Board of Trade, was examined at great length, the effect of his evidence being that the ex plosion was owing to a weakening in the bolts and stays of the engine. In answer to Mr Sleigh, who appeared for the company, Capt. Tyler said it was impossible by visible inspection to detect the defects in the stays of the engine which caused the accident, except there ware either leakage or bulging. The Coroner said the jury would now deliberate on their verdict. Th e y would of course consider whether there had been any laxity of inspecti on , an d if they should be of that opinion they would of course say so, Captain Tyler had said that it would. be impossible by visible inspgctiart to detect the defect that caused the accident; but if t h e jury thought that there should be more attention paid to the examination of the state of the l ocomotives they could express that opinion in their verdict. No criminal act had been committed, as no law had been broke n ; but if there had been an a ct s t a ti ng th a t a certain thing should be done, and the provisions of the act had not been complied with, then there could b e verdict of manslaughter returned against some party ; a s it was, such was not the case. Re felt certain that any re commendation the jury might feel it their duty to attach to their verdict would be given the greatest comideraticn to by the London Railway Company. The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and efter an absence of 40 minutes returned to the inquest room. The Foreman read the verdict, which began by stating that Davis met with his death in consequence of the ex, plosion of the fire box of No. 6 engine. The Coroner —That is accidental death. Several persons exclaimed "No, no," and one said, " The foreman has the report, and he ought not to be in terrupted." The Coroner—That must be left to me. The Foreman added that in the opinion of the jury the rivet-heads ought to have been more frequently examined, when there were such evident signs of weakness. Tne Coroner—Then your verdict is accidental death, with recommendations to be sent to the directors. Several gentlemen said the word "accidental" was not in the verdict. The Coroner—You don't say it was not accidental, surely. A Juror—We purposely leave that an open question. 'f he Coroner—The death must have been natural, acci dental, or violent, What do you say it was? A Juror—We say nothing about it. We purposely left it open, in order that, if pressed upon us, wo might i etire to reconsider the matter. The Coroner—You had better retire and bring in a ver dict of manslaughter against the company. Mr Sleigh said, perhaps the jury would pardon him, but what ho supposed they intended to convey was that there was no evidence to affix blame to any particular indi vidual. A Juror—lf we bring in a verdict of accidental death, are the company liable for the consequences. Coroner—Yes, certainly. The company will be civilly responsible. A Juror—l don't see how we can come to the conclusion that the death was accidental, when we are of opinion that it arose from the neglect of proper care. The Coroner said he was only anxious that a verdict should be returned which would be effective. He thought it best the jury should return such a verdict as woitld en able a jury to convict, and not one upon which they must acquit. A Juror—Before we again leave this room I should like to know whether we are bound to return either a verdict of accidental death or manslaughter? The Coroner—Yes, you must one or the other, and name the parties whom you consider responsible. A Juror—l think we ought to be bound by Johnson's Dictionary. What is his meaning of the word " Acci dent?" The Coroner—That may do very well, but iu this:countiy we go by common seube. The jury then again retired,and after a short absence re ! turned to the inquest zoom, when The Coroner asked if they were agreed ? The Foreman said their verdict was, that the death of the man William Davis arose from fracture of the base of the skull, and that that fracture was caused by the explo sion of No. 6 engine on the North London Railway on the 16th of August last, and also that the death arose from mi3adventure. The jury appended two resolutions to their verdict, one specifying that there had not been proper care in the exa mination of the locomotive, and the other that some more effectual steps be taken for the future. The Coroner, foreman, and jurors then signed the ver dict and resolutions, and a copy was ordered to be trans mitted to the directors of the Not th London Railway Com pany. The proceedings then terminated. CRICKET, ONE ARM T. ONE LEG.—The weather proved very fine yesterday, and this burlesque match upon genuine cricket attracted a very large number of spectators, upwards of three thousand persons, including a number of the fair sex, being present, a complete ring on the large ground at Ken nington-oval being formed. Soon after 12 o'clock the, One- Leg side entered on their second innings, being in a mino rity of 17 of their opponents, The innings finished for 136, leaving the One-Arm 120 to get to win. Time, however, did not permit the game to be played out, and the match was left drawn, the One-Arm scoring 112, with one wicket to fall, The amusement excited during the play was eon. sidarable. Imagine a one-leg man attempting to catch or run after a ball; he breaks his leg (a wooden one), and the whole of the spectators are convulsed with laughter, which is increased when one of his opponents picks him up and carries him on his back to the retiring room. The veterans themselves seemed to enjoy the fun as well as the spectators, for when attempting to make a run they would throw themselves down, and endeavour with the bat to reach over the popping crease, which convulsed the assemblage with laughter. In the course of the afternoon the children of the Licensed Victuallers' School again attended with their band, Governor Harris, of the Incorporated Society, looking after them as a guardian. Too much praise cannot be awarded to Mr F. Hill, host of the Surrey Tavern, who provided tea, cake, bread and butter, and fruit for the chil dren (numbering 140) on both days. Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening, An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria , cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 31st day of Aug. lb% : ISSUE DEPARTMENT , Notes issued ........£26,879,975 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3,634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,229 975 Silver Bullion .... .C 26,879,075 £26,870,975 , EPARTMENT. Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Com mi s mi ssioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- Government Senn- rities (including Dead WeiglitAn- _ nuity) V - 0 1.0,707,095 Other Securities 2 1 ,161,246 Notes Gold and Silver 750,035 Coin counts) 5,815,742 Other Deposits 13,073,751 Seven Day and other Bills 551,224 £37,833,274 "V £37,853,274 MILLER, Chief Cashier. Sept. 1, 1864. THE CHASE OF MULLER..—At Queenstown on Wednesday morning the City of London steamship was telegraphed as off Cape Clear. She put he r mai l b ags on board the Inman tender at Roche's Point , Q uee nstown, at 11.30. She brings 87 cabin passengers, 93 steerage, an d 16,903d015. (.€3,678) in specie. There was no news of Muller on the 20th inst. at Now York when the City of London left. Detective Tanner was there anxiously looking out for the arrival of the Victoria. There is much excitement manifested in Queenstown about Muller. EMIORATION FROM LIVELPOOL,—The Govern• meat em i g ration agent at Liverpool agent at Liverpool yesterday (Thursday) issued the usual emigration returns &em this port for the mouth ending July. From these returns it appears that during the month of August there sailed to th e United Sates 22 ships, with 6,765 steerage and 423 cabin passengers—to Canada, four ships, with 51.1 steerage sod 146 cabin passengers—to New South Wales, one ship, with 284 steerage passengers—and to Victoria, two ships, with 'J92 steerage and 26 cabin passengers— making a total of 29 ships and 8,550 steerage passengers. The ships that sailed "net under the act" were—for the United States, 11, with 463 passengers—to Canada, one, with 15 passengers—to New Brunswick, one, ,with 3 pas sengers—to New South Wale:, oce, with 71 passengers— te Victoria, two, with 89 passengers—to South Australia, one, with 2 passengers—to West Coast of Africa, one, with 33 cabin passengers—making a grand total of 2,579 Eng. lisb, 391 Scotch, 4,112 Irish, and 877 Ciermaw, AY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864